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Locals take on dance world in ‘All the Right Moves’

The Bay State takes center stage in Oxygen’s new dance series, “All the Right Moves,” premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m.

Cameras follow Southampton-raised performer and choreographer Teddy Forance and Brockton hoofer Kyle Robinson in this unscripted show as they launch their own dance company with business partners and friends Travis Wall, a choreographer from Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” and Nick Lazzarini, “Dance’s” season one winner.

“It was a very wild, crazy six months,” Forance, 24, told the Herald from Los Angeles. “Definitely the most intense moments of my life.”

The four launched their company Shaping Sound in North Hollywood, Calif. Forance and Robinson drew upon their years of experience competing in Massachusetts while shaping the troupe.

“Probably 10 years ago, we got teased for dancing,” Forance said. “Now people are like, ‘Why didn’t I dance? You are surrounded by girls.’ I do think the evolution of dance right now is soaring.”

Forance, a product of his family’s nearly 80-year-old business, the Hackworth School of Performing Arts, has worked with Celine Dion and Kelly Clarkson and performed with Lady Gaga.

Robinson got his start at the Gold School in Brockton. He then went on to train at Juilliard and can boast ballet great Mikhail Baryshnikov as a mentor.

The two are part of Massachusetts’ rising profile in dance. Stoughton’s Kenny Wormald, also a product of the Gold School, recently gained nationwide attention for his role in “Footloose,” and Roxbury-raised Russell Ferguson won season six of “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Forance and Robinson attribute the success to the state’s tight-knit dance community.

“The Boston area has a lot of really strong male dancers,” Robinson said. “I think it’s just because we grew up in the Boston area, we were so close, bouncing off each other and collaborating.”

Even with years of friendship between them, Forance and Robinson said there were tense moments during filming.

“Everyone has their moments,” Forance said. “It’s cool to see how we come together while being so different, and truly the process of creating a dance piece can be so intense and such a struggle.”